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1:18

All right, that's what I think, folks, nothing

1:20

really other to say. No, I do want

1:22

to hear about, did you watch that movie?

1:24

Did you, did you just interrupt me, motherfucker?

1:26

It's important. What's the movie? That movie we

1:29

talked about at the weekend. The house talked

1:31

horror built or something? What? Did we

1:33

get, we talked about this Keith, we were

1:35

drinking at the weekend, I don't remember. We

1:37

were drinking at the weekend, yeah, I'm actually,

1:40

I'm just over it. Yeah, no, because I

1:42

was puking in the sheriff from folks at

1:44

home, the following morning, very hung over, because

1:46

I have not used to drinking that much,

1:49

and I haven't done that in the last

1:51

year, and I'm not used to drinking that

1:53

much, and I haven't done that in the

1:55

long time. Yeah, we started, I have, I

1:58

have, I have not used to drinking, I

2:00

have, I have not used to drinking, I

2:02

used to drinking that much, I have, I

2:04

used to drinking that much, I have, I

2:07

have, I used to drinking that much, I

2:09

have, I have, I used to drinking that

2:11

much, I have, I have, I have, I

2:13

have, I used to drinking, I have, I

2:16

used to drinking, I have, I have, I

2:18

used to drinking, I have, I have, I

2:20

used I came across another movie which I

2:22

was going to watch and you said don't

2:25

watch it because you're going to watch LLC.

2:27

Oh yeah, yeah, it's in Mike's movie reviews

2:29

patented. Really good. I watched it. I was

2:31

like, that's great. Great review Keith. That's why.

2:34

Say in your lane. Say in your lane.

2:36

But then I said there was, I came

2:38

across another movie which I was going to

2:41

watch and you said don't watch it because

2:43

you're going to watch it. and then give

2:45

a review before I get a chance to

2:47

watch it. So I've been holding off. I'm

2:50

waiting for you to watch it. I'm waiting

2:52

for you to watch it. I want to

2:54

be calling it. What is it called? The

2:56

House of October built. Yeah, I think that's

2:59

what's called. I've never seen it. 2014. Okay,

3:01

the House of October built. We watched the

3:03

trailer. Keith, I was drinking. What do you

3:05

expect for me, motherfucker? I do not remember.

3:08

Okay, I think I remember the trailer, looks

3:10

good. Listeners, have you seen the house that

3:12

October built, 2014, directed by Bobby Rowe? Let

3:14

us know your thoughts. Listen, let us know

3:17

your thoughts. Listen, you guys can review it

3:19

yourself. Okay, yeah, I guess I'll watch it.

3:21

I've got a million and one hour movies

3:23

to watch. And folks, I'm sorry I've no

3:26

review for you. The white load, oh okay,

3:28

it's a good show. Yeah, good, yeah. I've

3:30

watched a lot of, not a horror show

3:32

though. Yeah, I've been watching a lot of

3:35

Alaskan Bush people. Nice, excellent. I love that

3:37

shit. I love the survival shows, they're my

3:39

favorite. I don't have survival, is it? Like,

3:41

I think it's all, like, it's all fake.

3:44

Oh well, you know what I mean, quote

3:46

unquote survivalist shows, like, like, people living in

3:48

the woods, and the woods and shit. It's

3:51

great, it's great, it's great, it's my favorite,

3:53

it's my favorite, it's my favorite, it's my

3:55

favorite, it. It's good in the watch because

3:57

then you can look up their lives after.

4:00

Like just switch like, apparently they're big scam

4:02

artists. Oh yeah. It's amazing, it's so good.

4:04

It's amazing, it's so good. Yeah, yeah, I

4:06

love those shows, they're the best. Yeah, I've

4:09

been watching The White Lotus in Hells Kitchen.

4:11

Because I am a sad, pathetic person here.

4:13

I literally, no, I'm not like researching reality.

4:15

and I usually give out to her for

4:18

watching this shit. Sign on Judge Judy? Yeah.

4:20

All right, folks. Okay, so Keith. Yep. Real

4:22

talk. This is the That Chapter podcast. You

4:24

can't spend a whole episode talking about movies

4:27

we haven't seen. Any ghost stories for me

4:29

or for the fans at home? No, man.

4:31

No ghost stories. No, still. You didn't have

4:33

any last week. I know. It has gone

4:36

quiet. No, man. Maybe, oh, make some noise

4:38

up there. I did actually. I got a

4:40

new desk, so I had to put my

4:42

old desk up into the attic. And my

4:45

daughter was dying to help me. And she

4:47

didn't. killing ourselves get up in the diatic

4:49

for ages so I had her give me

4:51

hand but it was a point I had

4:54

to leave her up in the attic for

4:56

like two minutes yeah well not two minutes

4:58

it was like like 20 seconds but uh

5:00

yeah she didn't really like it She got

5:03

a little scared. We'd say it's fair enough.

5:05

She was like, no she had the light

5:07

was on, but she didn't like it. So

5:10

I don't know if she's gone back up

5:12

there, I got herself. Uh-huh. Well, now you

5:14

got that off your back, you know, you

5:16

don't need to worry about bringing her up

5:19

or anything. Right, I know, yeah. Yeah. Keith,

5:21

are you sure it's your daughter you took

5:23

down? Oh, oh, that's good. Yeah, too bad.

5:25

days feel like they're getting longer and longer

5:28

which to me makes me excited yeah because

5:30

it means we're one day closer to October.

5:32

And the best season of the year! A

5:34

time when ghost schools, and dare I say,

5:37

you know, actually, a little segue into today's

5:39

episode. Is Grandel stretched in the day, we're

5:41

getting longer and longer days, clocks are about

5:43

to go forward, or perhaps it already had,

5:46

or backwards, whichever one it is. One or

5:48

the other. Spring, spring's forward. Spring forward fall

5:50

back. Well, you know who wouldn't like a

5:52

Grandel stretched in the day, is a Evambe.

5:55

That would make their lives more difficult. That

5:57

would make their lives more difficult. That would

5:59

make their lives more difficult. That would make

6:01

their lives more difficult. That would make their

6:04

lives more difficult. That would make their lives

6:06

more difficult. That would make their lives more

6:08

difficult. the Cape Cod Vampire. A serial killer

6:10

active on Cape Cod, Massachusetts in the late

6:13

1960s. This is a story I kind of

6:15

read like the brief of it a couple

6:17

of times and like the you know the

6:19

Wikipedia just a short articles and I'm like

6:22

oh this is a story I want to

6:24

cover or no get the gist of it

6:26

and it's what I've wanted to cover for

6:29

quite a long time. and now having properly

6:31

covered it and looked into it, boy oh

6:33

boy, it's like when it was done, I

6:35

sure you probably should have covered it a

6:38

long time ago, because this is insane. It's

6:40

a doozy. Yeah, this is a doozy of

6:42

a story, folks. So, settle in for Tony

6:44

Costa, the Cape Cod Vabee. Let's begin with

6:47

the man himself. Antone Charles Tony Costa was

6:49

born in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, right

6:51

at the Ars End of the Second World

6:53

War. His father a Portuguese immigrant and carpenter's

6:56

mate in the U.S. Navy was killed at

6:58

the age of 36 only a couple of

7:00

months after Tony Costa was born after hitting

7:02

his head on coral while saving another sailor

7:05

from drowning only to drown himself and die

7:07

a hero. His mom Cecilia then remarried to

7:09

Joseph Bonnevieri when she fell pregnant with Joseph's

7:11

baby. The child would be born in 1946

7:14

and named Vincent that would be Tony's half

7:16

brother. So despite never knowing his father who

7:18

had died before his first birthday, when Tony

7:20

was around seven years old, he repeatedly told

7:23

his mother that a man he didn't know

7:25

kept coming into his bedroom late at night.

7:27

When she asked him who the man was,

7:29

Tony pointed to a photograph of his father.

7:32

Ooh, spooky. Or molesting? I don't know. What

7:34

are there? So from a young age, Tony

7:36

had a thing for animals. Not so much

7:39

to living ones, though. Tony was fascinated by

7:41

death and even adopted text during me as

7:43

a hobby. It got to a point that

7:45

Tony would bring home road kill in order

7:48

to treat and preserve the remains. But unfortunately

7:50

for the neighborhood pet population, Tony, um, Tony

7:52

and one of those little problems, I believe

7:54

there, you know, it's an economics problem where

7:57

demand outstrips supply. The local cats, who all

7:59

soon started disappearing. Thanks to Tony. Now though

8:01

he was never caught red-handed, cat-handed, almost everyone

8:03

knew Tony was responsible for the local cats

8:06

going missing. You'll no doubt, dear listener, be

8:08

completely shocked to hear that Tony was far

8:10

from a people person and never really formed

8:12

any relationships that had any real depth to

8:15

them, but he was always known as a

8:17

very charming guy. As spoiler, I probably spoil

8:19

it in the title, Cape Cod, I'm far.

8:21

He was charming in the way maybe Dracula

8:24

was, or, you know, the way a serial

8:26

killer is charming. Yeah. Kind of, what's his

8:28

face? Who's your man? Serial killer, kill those

8:30

people famous one. That one other one, yeah. Yeah,

8:33

the main guy, the big guy, Ted Bundy. What

8:35

do you think I'd do, true crime and shit

8:37

for a little bit? Yeah, he's kind of, you

8:39

know, that kind of way. Yeah. So parents where

8:41

they were worried about him for a little bit,

8:43

but they also saw a lot of promise in

8:46

Tony as well. So, putting aside all like. the

8:48

ghostly stuff and the taxidermy. He was a pretty

8:50

bright kid and just at 13 they actually let

8:52

him manage the finances of the step out of

8:54

his business. That sounds very dodgy. Right. Maybe like

8:57

they'd hope to keep him like the busy work

8:59

would stop him from finding or killing dead cats.

9:01

So let's put him in charge of the most

9:03

important parts of the business. No money. Look if

9:05

it stops him from killing cats. They're really desperate.

9:07

He just used to put his mind somewhere else.

9:09

Yeah. But yeah, that didn't, that didn't work for

9:11

long. That didn't work for long. Tony. Tony, that

9:13

didn't work for long. Tony, I guess he couldn't

9:15

work for Tony, I guess he couldn't contain, I

9:17

guess he couldn't contain his. Hmm. So Tony Costa's

9:19

first significant run-in with the law

9:22

came in November 1961, when Costa,

9:24

then aged 16, broke into the

9:26

house of a girl he used

9:28

to play with in Somerville, Massachusetts.

9:30

Now Tony Costa claimed that the

9:33

two played together a couple years earlier,

9:35

and that the girl had consented to

9:37

being tied up, insisting that the whole

9:39

thing was completely consensual. Ahem, was it

9:42

though? Fortunately for her, she'd woken up

9:44

before Tony could commit any violence against

9:46

her, though it likely earned her a

9:48

lifetime's worth of nightmares, seeing as she

9:51

woke to find him standing over her

9:53

and staring down. She screamed the house

9:55

down, causing Tony to shit twice and

9:58

do a legger out the window. Weirdly

10:00

enough, he didn't learn anything from this

10:02

near miss, and he returned to the exact

10:04

same house three nights later So he's

10:06

like, oh, yeah a couple years ago. She

10:08

let me do it, and then he

10:10

broke in she screams He runs he's like,

10:12

I'll try again so three nights later

10:14

like what the shit? This time

10:16

Tony tied the girl up and began

10:18

dragging her down the stairs It was

10:20

only her parents intervention that saved her

10:22

from Whatever horrific plans Tony had for

10:24

her and spoiler alert by the end

10:26

of this episode You'll probably have a

10:28

good idea of what they would have

10:30

been When Tony when he was

10:32

questioned by police about this so this is

10:34

what he said I met her on Thursday, November

10:36

16th 1961 and she gave me a key

10:39

to her house and told me to come to

10:41

her bedroom The next night after I entered

10:43

the house from the back stairs I walked up

10:45

to the bedroom on the second floor, and

10:47

I saw the girl on the bed I tapped

10:49

her on the shoulder and she quickly jumped.

10:51

She told me that she was glad to see

10:53

me But I felt that I shouldn't have

10:55

been there and so I began to leave and

10:57

then she started to scream I got scared

10:59

and then I ran out of the house. I'm

11:02

the victim here I'm the victim yeah, so

11:04

the Somerville police detective then asked Costa if he

11:06

tied up the girl And he said it's

11:08

a game that we play together on many occasions

11:10

I have tied her hands with rope then

11:12

I pull her underpants down and then just look

11:14

at her She never hollered before and like

11:16

this is something that we're going to see again

11:18

again By the way where Tony like his

11:20

numbers smart But he clearly wasn't paying attention in

11:22

creative writing class Yeah, he just could not

11:25

come up with a believable story to say. Yeah.

11:27

Heater says he's the victim or disvictim blames

11:29

Yeah, pretty clear cut case of being a big

11:31

old Bastard man.

11:33

Yeah So that break in and

11:35

assaults ultimately landed Costa with three years

11:37

probation and one year suspended sentence Given

11:39

the gravity of what he did and

11:41

the implication the the implication folks behind

11:44

it The sentence was definitely getting off

11:46

lightly. He rightly should have really gone

11:48

straight to prison I mean the

11:50

fact that he did it like once

11:52

in a couple of nights later did

11:54

it again I mean come on Tony's

11:56

mother then sent him to live in

11:59

Provincetown at the very and of Cape Cod

12:01

with some relatives. It was thanks to

12:03

Tony's mother that he got off, so

12:05

like, Celia, yeah. Like he was meant

12:07

to go to juvenile detention and like

12:09

she pleaded with George. Yeah. Look, you

12:11

won't do it again, I'll send him

12:13

away. Just let him off. She comes

12:15

up later again at a story and

12:18

yeah, she's like constantly like going to

12:20

bat for him. It's like, she's an

12:22

enabler. It's like, like, stop. So in

12:24

what would have usually been seen

12:26

as a positive step in the

12:28

right direction in 1963, aged 18,

12:30

Costa finally seemed to start settling

12:32

down, he straightened out, he even

12:34

got married. One issue with that

12:36

though, oh boy, the girl he

12:38

married, Avis, was her name, was

12:41

only 14 years old, and the

12:43

reason for the quick marriage was

12:45

that she was pregnant with his

12:47

child. indicating their relationship had been

12:49

sexual for some time before the

12:51

marriage, likely before she turned 14.

12:53

Growth. Moving on, over the next

12:55

three years, the unconventional couple would

12:58

have tree children together, but the

13:00

relationship never exactly stable. Over time,

13:02

Tony became more and more unpredictable,

13:05

which was exacerbated massively by his

13:07

increasing drugs use. Like most of

13:10

the young population, Tony had smoked

13:12

his fair share of the devil's

13:14

lettuce, but throughout the course of

13:17

his marriage, he had begun to

13:19

indulge in chemicals as well as

13:21

herbs, his drug abuse, now included

13:24

LSD, hydromorphone, among others. By 1966,

13:26

the Costa's marriage had become untenable,

13:28

and the relationship was all but

13:31

dead in the water. Tony's behaviour

13:33

became more and more unpredictable. One

13:35

night in June 1966, Tony picked

13:37

up two hippie girls, Bonnie Williams

13:39

and Diane Federoff. After offering them a

13:42

ride to Pennsylvania of all places,

13:44

which as you will know is

13:46

a fair hell of distance from

13:48

Cape Cod. Obviously Avis was far

13:51

from trilled with her husband bringing

13:53

home random women, but she was

13:55

used to this kind of inappropriate

13:57

and irresponsible stupidity from Tony. and

14:00

I'm sure her reaction would have been

14:02

even more extreme had she known that

14:04

neither of these girls would get to

14:06

Pennsylvania. Tony would later insist to police

14:08

that he did in fact drop them

14:11

off where they wanted to be but

14:13

authorities think that it's possible they could

14:15

have been some of his first victims.

14:17

Bonnie and William so they were initially

14:19

they were planning to head a West California.

14:21

Tony, he told his wife that he ditched

14:23

the two girls in Pennsylvania because he was

14:26

afraid of crossing state lines with a minor.

14:28

Finally, she was only 16 at the time.

14:30

So he's afraid he's crossing straight lines but

14:32

no idea marrying or like no problem to

14:34

him to marry. Yeah, I don't want to

14:36

cross lines with a minor because I've got

14:38

a minor at home. But yeah, he later

14:41

changed that story and he dropped the girls

14:43

off in a town just outside at Han

14:45

Francisco and detected like they did follow up

14:47

did follow up with it, but they did follow

14:49

up. So eventually in January

14:51

of 1968, Tony upped and he

14:53

abandoned the family altogether, which normally

14:56

is a pretty big dick move,

14:58

but he sort of did them

15:00

all favor by removing himself from

15:02

his family's lives. Tony decided it

15:05

was time to return to his

15:07

carefree lifestyle and he headed to

15:09

California for a little while. He

15:12

settled in San Francisco where he

15:14

found himself a new girlfriend named

15:16

Barbara Spalding. After a while though,

15:18

really, California, not really working out

15:21

for a masshole like Tony. So

15:23

he decided to return to Massachusetts

15:25

with Barbara in tow. Only one

15:28

of them would never arrive. Despite

15:30

the two of them being seen

15:32

in the car, setting off together,

15:35

after Barbara dropped her infant child

15:37

off with relatives, she vanished somewhere

15:39

along the journey. Now Tony always

15:42

swore she'd left him and gone

15:44

to Mexico. But, well, really, who

15:46

knows. After his return from San

15:48

Francisco, Tony almost exclusively hung out

15:50

with teenagers, which he, well, he's

15:53

a big fan of that, it

15:55

seems, very much really a big

15:57

fan of that. And Tony here...

15:59

He lied heavily on a small patch

16:02

of land where he grew his own

16:04

marijuana. It wasn't exactly a bumper crop

16:06

having only two female plants, but it

16:08

was enough to keep him and his

16:10

hip young friends satisfied with a few

16:13

buds left over to sell to the

16:15

occasional teenager. He had this group of

16:17

hippie teenagers who would hang around with

16:19

him and they just like hang on

16:21

his every word and they called him

16:24

the sire. This sire, man, that's cringe.

16:26

I know, isn't it? Well to be

16:28

fair like their names weren't much better

16:30

either either. So some of his hippie

16:33

friends, they went by the names Romulus,

16:35

Speed, Weed, and Fluff. The 60s. What

16:37

an awful time. I think like the

16:39

name Weed is most unimaginative. Yeah. I

16:41

like weed. One is weed. One is

16:44

weed. Yeah. That's for losers. Yeah. During

16:46

the summer of 1968, Tony began working

16:48

at a local doctor's office in Provincetown,

16:50

cleaning and painting the Guttering. When he

16:52

spotted a young girl working on the

16:55

reception. Now Tony decided then, who's sheep.

16:57

He asked the doctor. He asked the

16:59

doctor. He was told very politely, that's

17:01

my daughter, stay the fuck away from

17:04

her, which, thankfully, he did. He did

17:06

not, however, stay away from the rest

17:08

of the doctor's office. And on May

17:10

17, 1968, Tony broke into the doctor's

17:12

surgery and stole $5,000 worth of pills

17:15

and medical equipment from the office. It

17:17

didn't exactly take a brain surgeon to

17:19

work out who had committed a burglary,

17:21

and Tony got a quick visit from

17:23

the police. Now Tony again very nearly

17:26

did time for the burglary rightly should

17:28

have but once again as a result

17:30

of his mother Cecilia her bleeding on

17:32

his behalf really going to bat for

17:34

him he got off at a very

17:37

strong warning and that's when Tony moved

17:39

to Truro just outside of province town

17:41

proper and that's where he would really

17:43

make his name between May 24th and

17:46

May 25th 1968, which is one week

17:48

after the break-in at the doctor's office,

17:50

a Sydney monsoon. She went missing from

17:52

her home in Provincetown. Now she wouldn't

17:54

officially be reported as a missing person

17:57

until the following month, and that was

17:59

all. also ran the same time the

18:01

Costa's divorce would be made final. Sydney's

18:03

sister, she did go searching for her

18:05

and they looked for like several days

18:08

before finally going to her parents and

18:10

then going to the police and the

18:12

police assured her father that they would

18:14

make every effort to find her daughter

18:17

but unfortunately they had no intention of

18:19

doing that whatsoever they just assumed that

18:21

she was you know just another runaway.

18:23

We'll get right on that. Yeah we'll

18:25

start looking any second now. Yeah pretty

18:28

much. In early September, Tony began dating

18:30

yet another young girl, a Susan Perry.

18:32

Well, they'd be on dating for about

18:34

a week until the look of Tony.

18:36

His girls just keep leaving him and

18:39

going to Mexico. Yet again, she disappeared

18:41

after a split up. Soon after that,

18:43

Tony was arrested for driving on a

18:45

suspended license, but once again didn't do

18:48

any jail time. Then in November of

18:50

1968, one of Tony's other girlfriends, she

18:52

was found drowned. Her name was Christine

18:54

Gallant, having overdosed on barbituates in her

18:56

own bathtub. Now, there's already any evidence

18:59

that Tony had anything to do with

19:01

it, instead of maybe selling her the

19:03

drugs. It's nothing like his future MO,

19:05

but it's still yet another death slash

19:07

disappearance connected to young Tony Costa. No

19:10

smoke with a fireman. No, there is

19:12

not Keith. Very very well put. Provincetown.

19:14

Provincetown and Truro, which is kind of

19:16

a suburb of Provincetown, really. It's long

19:18

had a reputation as being something of

19:21

a haven for hippies and alternative folk.

19:23

In the late 1960s, the American countercultural

19:25

revolution was still in full swing and

19:27

unfortunately cases of young girls suddenly leaving

19:30

town, far from uncommon, much like Sydney

19:32

Monson. And I mean, you know, when

19:34

they have names like Speed and Weed,

19:36

what are you going to look for

19:38

a guy named Weed? Come on now.

19:41

that was kind of part of the

19:43

charm as well yeah why people were

19:45

so drawn to it however this meant

19:47

that when like concerned family and friends

19:49

they reported missing loved ones the police

19:52

thought they were just another teenager who

19:54

joined this drug-fueled bandwagon out of town

19:56

and you know they turn up soon

19:58

or later when the drugs or the

20:01

money ran out. But as far as

20:03

the P-town police or the province police,

20:05

they were concerned. They did want to

20:07

waste their time chasing after runaway hippies

20:09

because as far as they were concerned

20:12

they had much bigger fish to fry.

20:14

So the drugs seen in town had

20:16

absolutely exploded. So over the course of

20:18

a year they made nearly a hundred

20:20

arrests ranging from her own possession to

20:23

glue sniffing. Now like I guess like

20:25

that number it might seem quite small

20:27

but considering that Provincetown was only about

20:29

17 square miles and just had three

20:32

full-time police officers like they had their

20:34

hands full-time. Wow. They only had three

20:36

full-time? Full-time yeah. Damn. Provincetown during the

20:38

off season is completely dead. Tree full-time

20:40

offstones would be enough. But during the

20:43

summer it's like crazy. Right. You know,

20:45

tourism from people coming from like all

20:47

over Massachusetts and New England to spend

20:49

their summers there on Cape Cod. That's

20:51

true. Yeah, it's crazy. Like I don't

20:54

have made part-time to get in, but

20:56

like even still, it seems like slow.

20:58

Yeah, it seems like a low number.

21:00

On Friday, January 24th, 1969, Patricia H.

21:02

Walsh and Mary Ann Wisaki, both 23

21:05

years of age, traveled from their homes

21:07

in Providence, Rhode Island, to Provincetown, Massachusetts,

21:09

in Patricia's light blue Volkswagen. They booked

21:11

in at Mrs. Morton's guest house, staying

21:14

for two nights. The girls were introduced

21:16

to Tony Costa by the owner. Because

21:18

Tony, he himself was also booked into

21:20

the guest house a day earlier on

21:22

January 23rd. The next morning, January 25th,

21:25

all tree guests were out. When Mrs.

21:27

Morton found a note pinned to the

21:29

door of the girls' room. That read,

21:31

could you give me a ride to

21:33

Truro early in the morning? And it

21:36

was signed, Tony. Later that same day

21:38

sometime early in the afternoon Tony was

21:40

seen by a friend of his Zach

21:42

driving Patricia's blue Volkswagen Tony shouted out

21:45

to Zach they had a quick chat

21:47

Zach had a paycheck for Tony from

21:49

someone they'd both done some work for

21:51

So he took the opportunity gave it

21:53

onto Tony and according to Zach Patricia

21:56

and Marianne they're both in the car

21:58

with Tony at the time and Tony

22:00

then drove off in the direction of

22:02

Truro. The girls had all been supposed

22:04

to meet up with a guy named

22:07

Russell Norton in Provincetown, but they never

22:09

made it. They never showed up. The

22:11

following morning, January 26th, Mrs. Morton found

22:13

another note, having never seen the girls

22:16

again, and this time the note read,

22:18

we are checking out. Thank you for

22:20

your many kindnesses. Marianne and Pat. The

22:22

note in the girls' room was written

22:24

on the same note paper as the

22:27

one Tony had already left asking for

22:29

a ride from the girls the day

22:31

before. Tony was still in the house,

22:33

and likely if she checked the handwriting,

22:35

she probably would have found out that

22:38

was Tony's handwriting. When Mrs. Wharton checked

22:40

the rooms that the girls had been

22:42

staying in, their possessions were not there.

22:44

So she believed they just checked out

22:46

in a hurry. Not looking good for

22:49

these two girls all right Tony asked

22:51

leaves a note on the door asking

22:53

for a lift seems like they gave

22:55

him one and were never seen again

22:58

it would be few days later then

23:00

on January 29th Tony had visited a

23:02

gas station where he asked the owner

23:04

how much would it cost him to

23:06

paint a Volkswagen some exotic color I've

23:09

been able to figure out the reasoning

23:11

of why he wanted to paint it

23:13

in exotic color. Like I would have

23:15

assumed you want the car like to

23:17

blend in? Yeah, I mean, it's a

23:20

light blue, so you're going to want

23:22

to change it, but yeah, I'll paint

23:24

a bright pink. They're looking for a

23:26

Volkswagen, but a blue one. They'll never

23:29

know it was a bright pink one.

23:31

Hot pink. It's got to be exotic,

23:33

okay? Yeah. Painted in zebra strips. I

23:35

got style. Yeah. I want tiger strips.

23:37

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it. By Sunday, February 2nd, now, several

25:01

people had reported seeing the apparently abandoned

25:04

Volkswagen in a wooded area close to

25:06

a disused cemetery in Truro. An officer

25:08

was sent out to Chekona, but at

25:10

this time still unaware of some missing

25:13

women, didn't follow up after finding the

25:15

car with a note on the window

25:17

that said it had broken down, the

25:19

owner will be right back for it.

25:21

Tony leaves a lot of notes. He

25:24

loves a good note. After learning of

25:26

the conversation with the mechanic about painting

25:28

the car, the police officer then returned

25:30

to the area, hoping to find the

25:32

car still there, but by now, it

25:35

was gone. Later, that very same day,

25:37

Sunday, February 2nd, Costa asked two friends

25:39

to share a ride to Boston with

25:41

him, after telling them that he had

25:43

a car in Truro for the journey.

25:46

He added that he had been in

25:48

Truro, and the car was reliable because

25:50

he had driven it a week earlier.

25:52

The friends agreed and the tree of

25:55

them drove to Boston in that light

25:57

blue vokes wagon. When they asked Tony...

25:59

where did he get the car from?

26:01

He told them an abbreviated version

26:03

of the story he would later tell the

26:05

police. the girls had given him the car

26:07

before they went to Canada switching from Mexico

26:10

to Canada right this time now he's like

26:12

I already said like about a hundred girls

26:14

who got to Mexico shit let's go north

26:16

where else exists I think he said to

26:18

his friends that he saw them weed and

26:20

in return he got the car I was

26:22

like 700 or day day old oh yeah

26:24

he's so he sounds like three different stories

26:26

oh we'll get to it okay he tells

26:28

about five different stories but what happened what

26:31

happened to Patricia Walsh and Marianne was okay

26:33

In Boston, Tony went looking for

26:35

a place to buy a fake

26:37

driver's license, registration and a bill

26:39

of sale for the light blue

26:41

Volkswagen. He also tried to sell

26:43

a 22 pistol to several of

26:45

his friends. February 7th, Tony Costa

26:47

rented a parking space and tried

26:49

to register Patricia's car in his

26:52

name in Burlington, Vermont, hiding the

26:54

Rhode Island plates under the rubber

26:56

car mats. The very next morning,

26:58

good old Mrs. Morton was cleaning

27:00

up her guest house and what

27:02

did she find? Several of the

27:04

personal possessions Patricia and Marianne had

27:06

with them on their trip, she

27:08

found them in Tony's room and

27:10

her guest house. By February 8,

27:12

1969, authorities finally launched an official search

27:15

for Patricia and Marianne, beginning in

27:17

the area where Patricia's light blue vokes

27:19

wagon had last been seen. Now naturally

27:21

that was all enough for Tony

27:23

to shoot right up to the top

27:26

of the suspect list in Patricia and

27:28

Mary Ann's disappearance. One of Tony's

27:30

friends had seen him driving them around

27:32

in their car. He had been asking

27:35

around about painting their car. He

27:37

had been seen in the guest house

27:39

with them. All signs would lead to

27:41

Tony. And while Tony was still in

27:44

Boston, officers once again returned to Pine

27:46

Grove Cemetery and repeated their search. This

27:48

is in the area of where the

27:51

car had been spotted. Their efforts and

27:53

persistence were rewarded, but in

27:55

the worst way possible. Officers

27:57

found several papers on documents.

27:59

Some scattered around on the ground,

28:01

others half buried in the snow. The

28:04

documents, an insurance ID card and various

28:06

receipts, were all in Patricia Walsh's name.

28:08

If you get a chance, you should

28:10

look up the Pine Grove Cemetery on

28:12

Google Maps. It's in the middle of

28:14

nowhere. I'm googling it right now, Keith?

28:17

So the cemetery, it can only be

28:19

accessed via a half-mile dirt road, and

28:21

then it's entirely encircled by woodland. It's

28:23

just completely isolated. Oh wow, this is

28:25

like yeah at the end of a...

28:28

it's like a whoa, oh my god,

28:30

wow, this really is in the middle

28:32

of nowhere, like it's way off the

28:34

highway. It seems like it's honestly in

28:36

the most remote part of Cape Cod.

28:38

Yes, this is a very remote part

28:41

of Cape Cod, wow. All right, yeah,

28:43

it's perfect place to do something not

28:45

very good. Yeah. So the discovery of

28:47

receipts and IDs and Patricia's name was

28:49

enough to warrant pulling in extra officers

28:51

and properly combing over the area around

28:54

where they'd where they'd been found. and

28:56

hidden a short way back in the

28:58

woods, the officers, led by trooper Tom

29:00

Gunnery, came across what looked like a

29:02

large patch of disturbed earth with a

29:05

piece of green fabric sticking out through

29:07

the dirt. Tugging the exposed fabric aside,

29:09

Gunnery and the other officers realized it

29:11

was a duffel bag, an empty duffel

29:13

bag, albeit one with rust-brown stains on

29:15

the straps. But the distinctive smell of

29:18

death told them there was more here

29:20

and to keep digging. The indentation turned

29:22

out to be exactly what the officers

29:24

feared, a shallow grave. Underneath the duffel

29:26

bag officers began to pull out piece

29:29

after piece of bone. When Gunnery got

29:31

hold of a particularly large piece of

29:33

bone, he tried to pull it free,

29:35

only to end up holding the bone

29:37

plus an almost intact human foot on

29:39

the other end. Eventually, they would take

29:42

the complete remains of a young female.

29:44

The body had not broken down over

29:46

time, but rather... had been cut into

29:48

eight pieces prior to being buried. Something

29:50

that would have required an amendment. amount

29:53

of work and not something that needed

29:55

to be done. Why cut up a

29:57

body if you're just going to dump

29:59

it all in the same place? It

30:01

was done because whoever did it wanted

30:03

to do it and it gets worse.

30:06

Just when Gunnery had thought they'd retrieved

30:08

all of the parts the officers came

30:10

to a plastic bag at the very

30:12

bottom of the hole. Opening it up

30:14

revealed the head of the victim though

30:17

the face was unrecognizable as a person.

30:19

The victim had been beaten so badly,

30:21

their best friend wouldn't have recognized them.

30:23

The biggest problem was the state of

30:25

the remains, though. After all, Patricia and

30:27

Marianne, they hadn't been missing for that

30:30

long at all, a little under two

30:32

weeks. This woman had clearly been buried

30:34

here for some time. So who the

30:36

hell had they found? An autopsy would

30:38

identify their remains as belonging to Susan

30:40

Perry. Susan Perry had been missing for

30:43

almost five months since Labor Day September

30:45

1968. She was last seen getting into

30:47

a car driven by Tony Costa. Upon

30:49

further investigation officers found she had spent

30:51

a lot of time with Costa. At

30:54

the time of her disappearance Costa had

30:56

told everyone that she had gotten heavily

30:58

into drugs and told him she was

31:00

going to good old Mexico. Tony had

31:02

actually done some time in jail the

31:04

very same month that Susan had gone

31:07

missing, although it was for completely unrelated

31:09

to anything that happened to her. Shortly

31:11

after his arrest for the suspended license

31:13

charge, he had been picked up again

31:15

for failure to support his wife and

31:18

kids, for which he remained behind bars

31:20

at the county jail for a little

31:22

over a month. I forgot you had

31:24

kids. I know actually did too and

31:26

I was reading into the story for

31:28

quite a bit and I've already forgotten

31:31

Avis and his three kids. I know

31:33

right. So not only was he a

31:35

serial killer he was also a deadbeat

31:37

dad though again probably did them a

31:39

favor by staying in other lives obviously.

31:42

Absolutely. The exact location of Susan Perry's

31:44

murder still remains somewhat unclear however it's

31:46

It's believed that Costa killed her while

31:48

she was living with him in his

31:50

apartment in Dedham, just south west of

31:52

Boston. So after stabbing her to death,

31:55

Costa had sex with the corpse before

31:57

dismembering her, and then he stuffed her

31:59

body parts into Susan's green duffel bike,

32:01

placed her head in the plaster bike,

32:03

and then loaded him into the trunk

32:06

of his car. Then from there, he

32:08

drove two hours to Pine Grove Cemetery

32:10

in Truro, where he buried her remains.

32:12

Hmm. Hmm, dude. Yeah. So the autopsy

32:14

underremains from the graveyard revealed far more

32:16

than just who Susan was, it also

32:19

revealed just what a monster her killer

32:21

was. I'd say it's something from a

32:23

horror film, but it's actually worse than

32:25

that Susan's pelvic area had been heavily

32:27

mutilated. Her breasts cut off. Several of

32:30

her internal organs were missing, including her

32:32

heart and lungs. Her ovaries and uterus

32:34

had also been completely removed. During the

32:36

autopsy, the examiner discovered what he taught

32:38

was a rag or a cloth stuffed

32:40

in the cavity left behind where the

32:43

heart was removed. When he removed it,

32:45

he discovered it was in fact a

32:47

pair of yellow panties, with the word

32:49

Thursday stitched into them. That's such a

32:51

disturbing fact that he put her panties

32:53

where her heart was down, that's grim.

32:56

So the police were obviously very keen

32:58

to speak with Tony Costa, but thanks

33:00

to his definitely nothing to do with

33:02

hearing about the cops looking for the

33:04

girls He just murdered tripped up Austin.

33:07

They were having a trouble getting hold

33:09

of him He knew people may be

33:11

looking for him best lay low That

33:13

did mean though that they were free

33:15

to check out his room at the

33:17

good old guest house, mrs. Morton's where

33:20

they would come across several items in

33:22

his room that Mary Ann's boyfriend later

33:24

identified as belonging to a hair dryer

33:26

and a sweater He's still her hairdrier?

33:28

Like one's go what the shit? And

33:31

the other thing he sold all these

33:33

things and was like oh I'm keeping

33:35

this I'm actually gonna put it back

33:37

in the guest room. Yeah they they

33:39

knew he was there man a suspect

33:41

in now one murder and two disappearances.

33:44

So in an effort to better get

33:46

to know who cost the war. And

33:48

if he was truly capable of such

33:50

a heinous act, Trooper Gunnery and the

33:52

true roe police department sent officers out

33:55

to interview anyone who knew him. One

33:57

thing the police already knew about Tony

33:59

was his heavy drug use. And the

34:01

reason they already knew about that was

34:03

because Tony was a rat. Tony acted

34:05

as an informant to the local Popo

34:08

on several occasions. Interestingly, that's the least

34:10

shitty thing about him. Dead-knit, statutory rapists,

34:12

tried to kidnap an abducted woman out

34:14

of her own house twice. Serial killer,

34:16

and he was also a rat. Right

34:19

now, no, old mates. He write a

34:21

little Romulus. Fluff. weed not weed not

34:23

little weed they never would have got

34:25

him damn the police quickly learned that

34:27

Tony was a bit of an odd

34:29

job man in his small town did

34:32

a little bit of this and that

34:34

just a handyman so almost everybody knew

34:36

of him less savory though was his

34:38

love of taxidermy Several locals told the

34:40

detectives about Tony's habit of walking the

34:42

roads. Even the highways in the late

34:45

night and early morning hours looking for

34:47

a road kill, I guess. Truly, old

34:49

habits die hard. People would pass him

34:51

on their way to and from work

34:53

while he stocked for dead things, or

34:56

soon to be dead things. He also

34:58

wasn't above reaping his own prey and

35:00

had carried his childhood homicidal tendencies towards

35:02

small animals into adulthood. They also found

35:04

out that despite not having any close

35:06

friends, Tony was considered to be a

35:09

bit of a Casanova. Even before the

35:11

end of his marriage, he would basically

35:13

often be seen with different women every

35:15

single week. In amongst all the red

35:17

flags, there was a bizarre outlier though

35:20

with Tony. In addition to his occasional

35:22

carpentry and Mr. Fixit jobs, Tony also

35:24

worked as a babysitter for several local

35:26

kids. Not only did the kids love

35:28

him and trust him, the parents did

35:30

too. None of them had a bad

35:33

word to say about him, apart from

35:35

maybe he was a bit paranoid at

35:37

times. Wow. He was meant to be

35:39

a good babysitter, but uh... Incredibly creepy.

35:41

One of those babies went on to

35:44

write a book. Yes! Yeah, titled The

35:46

Babysitter, My Summers, with a serial killer.

35:48

Liza Roadman is the author and she

35:50

wrote about when Costa minded her and

35:52

her sister, when she was nine. Creeply,

35:54

she describes how Costa took her to

35:57

his secret garden in the woods of

35:59

Truro. Turns out that secret garden was

36:01

the burial grounds for all of his

36:03

victims. But yeah, creepy stuff. Yeah, very

36:05

disturbing. He's a very disturbing man. Damn.

36:08

Also, I'm not sure if he was

36:10

actually that good with the ladies. Like,

36:12

he did always have girlfriends on to

36:14

go all the time, but I think

36:16

there were just young girls who wanted

36:18

the drugs. He was, yeah. I think

36:21

he, I think it was the drugs

36:23

more than he wanted him. He was

36:25

truly one of those guys who was

36:27

kind of like the loser who hangs

36:29

out with people who were much younger

36:32

than him, because it makes him feel

36:34

cool. And they just simply just think

36:36

he's cool, because he's older, and like

36:38

more sophisticated. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, like, like,

36:40

like, like, like, like, like, like, like,

36:42

like, like, like, like, like, like, like,

36:45

So eventually Tony returned to Provincetown from

36:47

his self-imposed exile. And strangely, the first

36:49

thing he did was walk into the

36:51

police station and asked to speak to

36:53

the detective on the missing person's case.

36:55

He wasn't there to hand himself in

36:58

though, quite the opposite. He wanted to

37:00

clear his name. and he really shouldn't

37:02

have. It went very very very badly

37:04

for Tony which is good. He was

37:06

far too used to be able to

37:09

charm and lie his way out of

37:11

things that he really just kind of

37:13

true shit at the wall and hoped

37:15

something would stick. The beliefs officers weren't

37:17

you know the lonely housewives in a

37:19

town his charm wouldn't work on them

37:22

at all. Obviously the officers wanted to

37:24

know what happened to Patricia and Marianne

37:26

and where they were. First he tried

37:28

telling the detectives that Patricia... had given

37:30

him the car. And the girls were

37:33

going to travel to Canada, so one

37:35

of the girls could get an abortion,

37:37

then they'd settle in Montreal, start new

37:39

lives. Tony's story, though it changed more

37:41

and more with every retelling. He seemed

37:43

to not know any of the details,

37:46

even surface-level details. Worse, he appeared to

37:48

be making it all up on the

37:50

spot. Scratch that, I didn't like that.

37:52

Even the slightest bit of scrutiny caused

37:54

massive holes in his story. Like first

37:57

he would say... Patricia had given him

37:59

the car. Then, actually I just remembered,

38:01

she sold it to him for $900.

38:03

A few questions later, he switched it

38:05

up again. Now the girls had bought

38:07

weed from him, but they hadn't sold

38:10

their account, so he'd taken the car

38:12

as partial payment and was supposed to

38:14

meet the girls later to get the

38:16

rest of the money. Tony would then

38:18

elaborate on this account, provided that the cops

38:21

would a bill of sale that had his

38:23

and Patricia's signatures on it. But the thing

38:25

was, no matter what he said, he was

38:27

contradicting his original claim that he didn't know

38:29

who they were. Now he was admitting to

38:32

knowing them for over a year, having dealt

38:34

drugs to them, and sold, slash, bought, and

38:36

accepted a car from them. Not only that,

38:38

but he is also now claiming that the

38:41

girls had arranged with him to use the

38:43

car for another week before leaving it in

38:45

a spot by the cemetery for him to

38:47

collect. Oh yeah, just you know that cemetery

38:50

that's like miles off the road in the

38:52

middle of nowhere. That's our collection spot for

38:54

the car as you do. So it's insane.

38:56

Now he knows the girls well enough that

38:58

they would trust him, but he'd bought it

39:00

from then, but they'd given it to him.

39:02

Like, literally at this point, nothing was ringing.

39:05

The officers knew he was aligned like a

39:07

rock. The biggest issue was though that they

39:09

had nothing other than witness reports and a

39:11

few papers to say... Like anything was wrong.

39:13

I mean, they didn't have bodies. He had

39:15

been seen with them and their items had

39:17

been found in their room, but there was

39:20

nothing really more than that. And without the

39:22

bodies or some sign of serious harm coming

39:24

to them, they couldn't even prove that there

39:26

had been a crime. Maybe the girls had

39:28

gone to Canada. They were eventually forced

39:31

to let Tony walk free, albeit

39:33

under constant surveillance. It was obvious

39:35

by this point that Tony was

39:37

very, very guilty of something. The

39:39

detectives just weren't quite sure quite

39:41

sure quite sure what. Then a little

39:43

twist in the tail came a few

39:45

weeks later. When Tony... Guess what? You

39:48

got a telegram! He claimed to have

39:50

received from the girls. He got this

39:52

telegram, he says to the police, look

39:55

at that! It was sent the day

39:57

before and addressed to Tony Cost himself.

39:59

The telegram from the girls read,

40:02

quote, what happened, question mark. We

40:04

waited as planned, period. Is everything

40:06

all right, question mark. We'll meet

40:08

you as scheduled, New York City,

40:10

call Chuck first, love. I can

40:12

just like imagine Tony bursting in

40:15

the police station. Like, I have

40:17

evidence that I'm not guilty. Is

40:19

it another note? No, no, no.

40:21

It's an electronic note. It's an

40:23

electronic note. It's a different type

40:26

of note. Could Tony's rambling, ever-changing

40:28

story about Canadian abortions actually be

40:30

true after all? Not long after he

40:32

received, that telegram I just read out,

40:34

a second one arrived at Tony's mother's

40:36

home address. Could all Cecilia. It was

40:39

signed... Pat and Marianne and it was

40:41

handed right over to the police. There

40:43

you go. They forgot to sign the

40:45

first one, but they sent me a

40:47

second one with their signature on it.

40:49

So there you go. He's like, fuck,

40:51

forgot to sign up. So obviously it

40:53

was pure bullshit to police immediately. You

40:56

could see right through this that he

40:58

was just trying to prove they're alive

41:00

by, as he said, another note. But the

41:02

telegram it did actually delay. The police

41:04

for a while, it was later found

41:07

to have been originated from a New

41:09

York City telephone number that Tony had

41:11

access to. I think this is where

41:13

Tony he kind of started to panic

41:16

a little. Yeah, I mean I think

41:18

inventing a fake telegram and then look

41:20

at this, they're alive, look they said

41:23

we just don't know, right? Actually that's

41:25

panic move, yeah. Like I think he

41:27

realized that the information that he freely

41:30

shared with the police about where the

41:32

girls were going would actually lead him to

41:34

where he stashed the car in Vermont. So

41:36

among the many things that Costa said during

41:39

the questioning, the... The girls asked me if

41:41

they could use the car for a few

41:43

more days and I agreed. They took the

41:45

car to Vermont instead. So the doctor said,

41:48

oh, so the girls are in Vermont now,

41:50

right? To which Tony replied, I think they

41:52

went to Canada. They were scheduled to meet

41:55

with a doctor in Montreal so the pot

41:57

could have her situation taken care of.

41:59

So Kossay... providing his facts allegedly from

42:01

the girls in New York was it

42:03

was an attempt to throw the police

42:05

he had sashed the car in Burlington

42:08

Vermont he was leading to the text

42:10

right to Vermont like that was the

42:12

next step if they were going to

42:14

Montreal if that's where he said I'd

42:16

wear yeah and they went to Vermont

42:19

first they were going to follow the

42:21

trail yeah and they've go to Burlington

42:23

it might find the Volkswagen which he

42:25

had left there exactly wow yeah oh

42:27

crap can't do that yeah yeah so

42:29

while the investigation remained open and very

42:32

open and very active with Tony living

42:34

the good life as usual. But after

42:36

talking to Tony's young friend, because he

42:38

likes him young, and a weed customer

42:40

named Marsha, officers were more keen than

42:43

ever to get Tony into their custody

42:45

and off the streets. See Marsha, she

42:47

had told the police that she'd gone

42:49

to Tony's secret garden with him one

42:51

day, and he decided to take a

42:54

bow and arrow with him to shoot

42:56

it in the woods. Marsha just went

42:58

along with it and the two went

43:00

into the usual spot near the weed

43:02

farm where she helped him feed the

43:04

plants. When they were done Marsha she

43:07

began to get cold and so she

43:09

went back to the car but she

43:11

left Tony in the woods to play

43:13

cowboy and Indians on his own. As

43:15

she was walking back to the car

43:18

though from Tony's little secret garden where

43:20

he took his babysitting kids apparently she

43:22

was suddenly hit in the back of

43:24

the shoulder by an arrow. Tony, he

43:26

came rushing out of the tree line

43:28

and swore I... accident did mean to

43:31

shoot you with my bow and arrow,

43:33

and Marsha she believed him. She thought

43:35

the damage hadn't been that bad until

43:37

she got home. She was very badly

43:39

bruised and if she hadn't been wearing

43:42

a heavy coach because it was the

43:44

middle winter, the arrow would have gone

43:46

right through her shoulder with ease. Even

43:48

then, it was only with her mother's

43:50

pressing that Marsha agreed to go to

43:53

the hospital, where the doctors who were

43:55

tending to her insisted she needed to

43:57

fill out a police report. Still in

43:59

her naivety, Marsha couldn't think about charming

44:01

young Tony Costa, the hippie with the

44:03

pot farm. So she still, you know,

44:06

hung out with him. I found a

44:08

bad, like she... he shot her an

44:10

hour. and she's like, nah, nah, nah,

44:12

at least things happen. Yeah. On another

44:14

occasion, a couple more local girls, they

44:17

rode to the farm in Tony's car.

44:19

On the way, one of them found

44:21

Tony's pistol in the glove box. And

44:23

that was when Marsha began to realize

44:25

he may not quite be the peace-loving

44:27

hippie he married out to be. The

44:30

attempt on 17-year-old Marsha's life with the

44:32

bow and arrow, that turned out to

44:34

be a big mistake. A bigger one

44:36

than Tony realized. Marsha knew a lot

44:38

of things about Tony, things he wouldn't

44:41

have wanted shared. Though it took some

44:43

encouragement from her mother, Marsha eventually went

44:45

to the police with her suspicions about

44:47

Tony, and ended up leading Trooper Tom

44:49

Gunnery to Tony's garden. Marsha had a

44:52

lot more to tell Trooper Gunnery about

44:54

Tony Costa. She was friends with Tony's

44:56

ex-wife, old Avis. She's lay low truth

44:58

story, who had confided in her about

45:00

her husband's seriously worrying sexual preferences. Now

45:02

normally, you know, not one to king

45:05

shame, you do you, you know, you

45:07

gotta take care of your own needs.

45:09

But in a consenting way, of course.

45:11

Tony though wasn't really into any of

45:13

that sort of thing, and he basically

45:16

pushed his young, naive wife into fulfilling

45:18

his fantasies. Remember when they started together,

45:20

she was likely 13 years of age.

45:22

His fantasies included dosing Avis with a

45:24

super strong sedative, usually reserved for surgery,

45:27

and while she was unconscious, Tony would,

45:29

you know, do his thing. It seemed,

45:31

therefore, you can probably guess from that,

45:33

Tony had a bit of a preference

45:35

for the less living. And he liked

45:37

it when his wife played dead. Much

45:40

like what seems to have happened to

45:42

poor Susan Perry when they found her

45:44

body. God, it's horrible. Like, like, that's,

45:46

that's not huge leap to necrophilia. One

45:48

of his own wife, like, yeah, exactly.

45:51

Big reflex, mm-hmm. Once the weather cleared

45:53

and the ground had thought a little,

45:55

Trooper Gunnery and his small team were

45:57

finally able to properly search the patch

45:59

of land Tony called his garden. The

46:01

team were scouring the area for any

46:04

indication of a human presence. or dead,

46:06

when a search dog led them to

46:08

a dip in the ground. Gunnery scraped

46:10

away the ice and snow, and under

46:12

a shallow layer of dirt, he pulled

46:15

out a brown handbag. The contents of

46:17

the bag indicated that it had probably

46:19

belonged to Patricia Walsh. Inside were several

46:21

ID cards in Patricia's name, including a

46:23

driver's license, a Rhode Island College student

46:26

ID card, and a membership card to

46:28

the teacher's union. The discovery put the

46:30

detectives in a good news, bad news

46:32

situation. Sadly, the handbag being where it

46:34

was pointed strongly to Patricia not being

46:36

alive. Its location, though, meant her body

46:39

was very likely also somewhere nearby. The

46:41

search continued on, and soon a second

46:43

handbag was found also buried in a

46:45

shallow hole in the tree line. Thanks

46:47

to several identifying documents and items, that

46:50

included her ID card and her birth

46:52

certificate, even emergency contact information, that bag

46:54

very clearly belonged to Mary Ann Wysaki.

46:56

That bag probably had the most useful

46:58

evidence to identify a body. Yeah, literally

47:00

at every single thing about it. Who

47:03

even travels around with their birth cert?

47:05

It's usually one of those important documents

47:07

you kind of want to lock away.

47:09

Yeah, and Jesus, like, yeah, I don't

47:11

know, I don't know. It was the

47:14

60s. Yeah. There was also a receipt

47:16

for Mary Ann's room at the guest

47:18

house, further helping to establish the girl's

47:20

whereabouts, just beyond the word of the

47:22

witnesses. That might not seem important, but

47:25

in court it would later, you know,

47:27

make a big difference when the defense

47:29

would go on to dispute every little

47:31

fact. It also confirmed that the girls

47:33

had intended to stay the Friday and

47:35

Saturday evenings before leaving on the Sunday

47:38

to return back to Rhode Island. Finally,

47:40

while searching a little deeper into the

47:42

woods from Tony Garden, Trooper Gunnery once

47:44

again made a discovery he would never

47:46

be able to unsee. After noticing a

47:49

broken tree with a length of rope

47:51

tied around it, Gunnery went in for

47:53

a closer look. The rope strongly resembled

47:55

other pieces of rope that had been

47:57

found in Tony's boarding room and Mrs.

48:00

Morton's. In addition to the rope were

48:02

several items strung. run around the base

48:04

of the tree. Things that shouldn't have

48:06

been there like empty bottles of tablets,

48:08

a razor blade. Right away, Gunnery knew

48:10

he'd found the ex-marking spot and began

48:13

to dig and clear the ground of

48:15

snow. As he did, he came across

48:17

a woman's earring loose in the snow.

48:19

Gunnery had other officers begin helping him

48:21

and began the nerve-shreading and back-breaking task

48:24

of digging truly frozen earth around tree

48:26

to four feet down. Gunnery came across

48:28

a second piece of jewelry. This time

48:30

it was a distinctive ring with a

48:32

turquoise stone. The ring wasn't loose, like

48:34

the earring had been above. It was

48:37

still attached to the owner. Joined by

48:39

a detective, Gunnery continued to try his

48:41

best to gently excavate the body from

48:43

the frozen ground. When they came across

48:45

a clump of hair, the officer tried

48:48

to pull it free. But the level

48:50

of decay meant the hair and flesh

48:52

simply came away in his hand. The

48:54

men went back to gently scraping away

48:56

the dirt until they were finally able

48:59

to lift Mary Ann's severed head from

49:01

the shallow hole. Peace by piece they

49:03

eventually recovered the rest of her remains.

49:05

While the officers were still finishing up

49:07

clearing the first makeshift grave, they were

49:09

alerted that searchers a few hundred feet

49:12

over had found a second grave. Once

49:14

they were finished, they carefully covered Mary

49:16

Ann with a tarp and went over

49:18

to help with the second finding. Again...

49:20

piece by piece, the officers removed Patricia

49:23

Walsh's body. Like Mary Ann, the parts

49:25

had been stacked on top of each

49:27

other, though in fewer sections. Under Mary

49:29

Ann's body were several items of clothing,

49:31

all covered, and blood. It's mad like

49:33

like like said earlier on like there

49:36

was no need to dismember these bodies

49:38

like it's not like he did it

49:40

in a way to dispose of him

49:42

like he he'd already lured him out

49:44

to a completely isolated area and he

49:47

had as much time as he needed

49:49

to bury them yeah it's like he

49:51

did it in a way in an

49:53

attempt to own or possess his victims

49:55

permanently really just over top yeah absolutely

49:58

just when you had hoped to the

50:00

horrors would be done the officers realized

50:02

there was more to be found. A

50:04

couple of feet down were the far

50:06

more decomposed remains of another female. She'd

50:08

also been cut into pieces and despite

50:11

not being recognizable, owing to severe decomposition,

50:13

everyone there strongly suspected it was the

50:15

remains of Sydney Monson. Ever since she'd

50:17

gone missing, there'd been strong suspicion around Tony

50:19

Costa, but no evidence and no sign of

50:22

what happened to her. This has been back

50:24

in a way way earlier. Remember when she

50:26

had missing the police never really bothered to

50:28

follow up on what happened to her. Costa's

50:31

own 22 caliber pistol was found buried

50:33

in the same area. Tree-fired shells were

50:35

also found connected to the gun. So the

50:37

description I gave you a little

50:39

bit earlier of the state of

50:41

Susan Perry's body should give you

50:43

some idea of what's coming so

50:45

brace yourselves yourselves folks. Patricia's body

50:47

had been bisected at the waist.

50:49

Her body had been literally cut

50:52

in half at the midline of

50:54

the abdomen. Mary Ann's body had

50:56

been cut into five pieces. Her

50:58

head, the upper portion of her

51:00

torso, the pelvis, her right and

51:02

left legs. Patricia's chest had been

51:04

de-gloved with the skin peeled off

51:06

in a fashion like a sweater

51:08

so that it was only attached

51:10

by the shoulders. Patricia's cause of

51:12

death was a single gunshot wound

51:14

to the back of the neck. She

51:16

also had several deep stab wounds

51:18

to the chest, forceful enough to

51:20

break her ribs, though these were

51:22

inflicted post-mortem. Mary Ann had also been

51:24

killed by gunshot, but to the left side

51:26

of her head. She'd also been shot in

51:29

the back of the head, which likely wasn't

51:31

fatal on its own. Mary Ann's buttocks

51:33

had been slashed and stabbed several

51:35

times, almost in a frenzy, where

51:37

other incisions were calmly performed. should

51:40

also have been stabbed in the

51:42

chest and had the skin peeled

51:44

back from her chest. The pathologist's

51:47

final note on the autopsies of

51:49

both women was that the wounds

51:51

inflicted as well as other indications

51:54

pointed to necrophilia having been committed

51:56

and very likely the driving force

51:58

behind the murders. really horrifying. I

52:00

think like the only mercy is that

52:02

they seem to have like an actual

52:04

quick death of the shot and then

52:06

everything else kind of came post. My

52:08

God. 19 year old Sydney monson's body

52:10

had to be identified through her fingerprints.

52:12

There are far fewer details regarding what

52:14

exactly had been done to her including

52:16

the actual cause of death due to

52:18

decomposition being much more progressed. Like these

52:20

bodies were found in the February of

52:22

69th she had disappeared in the May

52:25

of 68 so she had been you

52:27

know hadn't been found for nine months

52:29

for nine months. Her body had been

52:31

cut into five pieces at her left

52:33

leg, head, pelvis and torso. The only

52:35

four were recovered. In addition to her

52:37

right leg, several of her internal organs

52:39

were missing. So the officers on Tony's

52:41

trail knew they needed to track him

52:43

down as quickly as possible. They heard

52:45

true friends and acquaintances that Tony had

52:47

been staying with his half-brother, Vincent. This

52:49

was back in Boston, so the police

52:51

headed there. Vincent had taken a new

52:53

job in the city and officers went

52:55

to speak with him at his work.

52:57

When the police got there, Vincent said,

52:59

hadn't seen his brother for about a

53:01

week and last he'd said, Tony told

53:03

him he was going back to Provincetown.

53:05

At least we already knew Tony was

53:07

not in Provincetown, Vincent was clearly lying

53:09

for his brother. But... they were like

53:11

oh yeah sure okay well go back

53:13

maybe we missed them we'll head back

53:15

to province down you know acted as

53:17

if they were buying it instead they

53:19

went to Vincent's new apartment in Boston

53:21

and sure enough as they were pulling

53:23

up they could see someone who looked

53:25

a hell of a lot like Tony

53:27

Costa peaking out of the windows they

53:29

figured Vincent had likely dropped Tony a

53:31

call that they're out looking for him

53:33

and Tony was keeping an eye out

53:35

in case he needed to do a

53:37

run However, when the police went up

53:39

knocked on the door, Tony answered the

53:41

door and said, oh yeah, hey, my

53:43

name is Vincent. It's like the word,

53:45

the shittest lie ever. He literally... I

53:47

know you. Yeah, we know you are.

53:49

We just spoke to your brother Vincent.

53:51

I love it. I'm someone else. No,

53:53

no, wait, it is me. I have

53:55

a note. I have no one saying,

53:57

I'm going to say, look. They immediately

53:59

arrested him, took him into custody. So

54:01

Tony was purp walked in front of

54:03

the media, who were loving, you know,

54:05

the flashy killer. This became a media

54:07

hit at the time. And he still

54:09

wasn't cooperating in the multiple murder investigations

54:11

he was now the subject of, but

54:13

he was basking in the limelight and

54:15

seemed to enjoy being the center of

54:17

attention. District Attorney Edmund Dennis was definitely

54:19

to blame for a lot of the

54:21

publicity this case would get and in

54:23

what was very likely a carefully calculated

54:25

political move with his career's future in

54:27

mind. Edmund Dennis gave a press conference

54:29

in which he gave a hugely embellished

54:31

account of the way in which the

54:33

bodies were found and the state of

54:35

the remains themselves, which was weird. He

54:37

didn't, it's already horrifying enough. I don't

54:39

know why he needed to like add

54:41

to it, but basically what Dennis he

54:43

made. the soap was that there was

54:45

a bite marks on a lot of

54:47

the bones that could quote only have

54:49

been made by human teeth. And so

54:51

this then ended up giving Tony Costa

54:53

the nickname the Cape Cod Vampire. No,

54:55

there's no evidence that there was bite

54:57

marks on the bones. He was already

54:59

chopping them up and a necrophilia. They

55:01

had proof of this. You don't need

55:03

to, like it's already horrifying. You don't

55:05

need, like it's already horrifying. You don't

55:07

eat it, oh, when he ate them

55:09

too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just a

55:11

super into vampires, I guess. Yeah, yeah.

55:13

But yeah, that's how the Cape Cod

55:15

Cod Cod Vampire Cod Vampire Cod Vampire

55:17

Cod Vampire, the Cannibal, the Cannibal, the

55:19

Cannibal, which, which, which, which, which, which

55:21

still, which still, which still sticks, which

55:23

still stinks, which still stinks, which still

55:25

stinks, which still stinks, and it's. pretty

55:27

cool name. It is a good name.

55:29

I mean, like he definitely helps spread

55:31

that legend. Yeah. So at trial, Tony

55:33

pleaded not guilty. And his lawyers tried

55:35

their best to push for Tony to

55:37

be found insane, having had him analyzed

55:39

by several experts, one of whom stated

55:41

on record that Tony was a sexual

55:43

sadist and borderline schizophrenic with a schizoid

55:46

personality. Now while they may have been

55:48

contributing factors, none of those diagnoses would

55:50

qualify Tony as legally insane, and therefore

55:52

he was judged to be capable of

55:54

recognizing right from wrong. The extent he

55:56

had gone in order to not be

55:58

caught, that all went completely against him

56:00

I mean you're not insane if you're

56:02

the way you tried to hide what

56:04

you had done and the final nail

56:06

in the legal coffin for Vampire Tony

56:08

was his insistence that he take the

56:10

stand in his own defense. His defense

56:12

strongly said you don't do this but

56:14

he was like I'll do it anyway.

56:16

You'll have heard before that it's usually

56:18

never a good idea to testify in

56:20

your own defense. It's usually kind of

56:22

like last act of desperation and it

56:24

doesn't tend to go well for the

56:26

defendant to testify. And in Tony's case,

56:28

it didn't end well for him at

56:30

all. Tony gave an eloquent articulate speech

56:32

to the jury, which I mean he

56:34

was trying to appear insane and that

56:36

was found guilty. If you just got

56:38

up on top of spiders or something,

56:40

exactly, you just, oh, the son told

56:42

me to do it. And then, yeah,

56:44

it was weird shit, like, yeah. He

56:46

did claim that he had an alter

56:48

ego named Corey, and Corey was the

56:50

one that urged him to kill, who,

56:52

and he wrote a book about it

56:54

as well, about killings, and it's like,

56:56

he brings up Corey quite a bit.

56:58

Well, he should, all three, oh, he

57:00

knows, and you know, he would be

57:02

a cool name for an alter, he,

57:04

he, he, he goes, he goes, he,

57:06

he, he goes, he, he, or something,

57:08

he, he, he, he, he, he's, he,

57:10

he, he, he, he, he, he's, he, he,

57:12

he, he, he, he, he, he, he,

57:14

he, he, he, he, he, he, he,

57:16

he, he, he, he, he, he, he,

57:18

he, he, he Tony Costa was sentenced

57:20

to life in prison. In prison, Tony

57:22

was quiet, kept himself to himself, choosing

57:24

to stay in his cell alone, and

57:26

reading books about the occult, which is

57:28

something that would have in common with

57:30

him. His crimes didn't exactly endear him

57:32

to his fellow prisoners anyway, so I

57:34

think it was probably a good idea

57:36

he stayed by himself. Though he did

57:38

make one friend, a very famous one

57:40

in fact, Kurt Vonnegut. Breakfast of Champions

57:42

is one of my favorite books. So

57:44

yeah, quite a fun. And he continued

57:46

to exchange letters with Tony, throughout his

57:48

sentence, and even inspired Tony to write

57:50

the book. You were just talking about.

57:52

Kurt Vonnegut's daughter, eat it. She'd actually

57:54

met Tony, before he was arrested, and

57:56

Kurt would later say he believed his

57:58

daughter could have been a victim of

58:00

Costa's if he hadn't been caught. account

58:02

of the murders as though Tony was

58:04

present for them. But he'd just been

58:06

an observer while a man named Corey

58:08

was the one who actually committed the

58:11

crimes. Corey his alter ego committed the

58:13

crimes. It's a very weird read and

58:15

it's basically as close as a confession

58:17

can basically be specifically to the killing

58:19

of Patricia and Mary Ann though this

58:21

was all part of an appeal plan.

58:23

You see in order to be found

58:25

not guilty by reason of insanity or

58:27

some other mental impairment you have to

58:29

admit you did the thing you were

58:32

accused of so Tony was admitting he

58:34

had done it but it was his

58:36

alter ego who had done it so

58:39

it's like I did it but I

58:41

didn't do it yeah because I'm crazy

58:43

he was basically trying to pull a

58:45

fight club right yeah yeah you know

58:48

different people totally different people you know

58:50

I'm Edward Norton Brad Pitt killed there

58:52

you know Four years into his sentence,

58:55

Tony did actually manage however to get

58:57

himself an early release in a coffin.

58:59

Oh, okay. Which for a vampire is

59:02

very fitting. Yeah, yeah. He killed himself.

59:04

On May 12th, 1974, Tony was found

59:06

hanged in his cell, having used the

59:09

leather belt from his prisoner's uniform tied

59:11

to the bars of the window. He

59:13

was only 29 years old when he

59:15

died, 70 years younger than his father

59:18

was. but fur from the hero his

59:20

father had been and there you have

59:22

it that my friends is the story

59:25

of the Cape Cod vampire by the

59:27

bite Tony has been linked to so

59:29

to proven for sure yep in court

59:31

for we're sure he did yeah because

59:33

he's been proven for Mary Ann and

59:36

Patricia yes Susan Perry and uh Sydney

59:38

monsoon they found the bodies like where

59:40

you've been it's for sure he killed

59:42

them too he's also been linked up

59:44

to like 16 others. Yeah, I mean

59:47

there's all those women who went to

59:49

Mexico or Canada or wherever. When he

59:51

was in California, there's a number of

59:53

women he was accompanied with who disappeared.

59:55

So, and I mean, what he did

59:58

to the four that we know. was

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